Tejpar Professor of Inter-Religious Studies
Dr Wood studies West Asia before and after the Arab conquests (roughly 400-900CE). He is particularly interested in the history of Christian communities in Syria and Iraq, and in the formation and preservation of group identities more broadly. His books have analysed Syriac speaking Christian groups in the later Roman Empire, the Sasanian Empire and the Abbasid Caliphate. He has recently published The Imam of the Christians. The World of Dionysius of Tel-mahre, 750-850 (Princeton, 2021) and, together with Prof. Leif Stenberg, What is Islamic Studies? European and North American Approaches to a Contested Field (Edinburgh, 2022).
He is also interested in the formation and maintenance of group boundaries in the present day, both in diaspora contexts and in the modern Middle East.
He is a regular participate in debates around contemporary integration policy and religious education in Britain and is keen to engage with government, think tanks and teachers.
https://aku.academia.edu/PhilipWood
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About Philip Wood
Dr Wood studies West Asia before and after the Arab conquests (roughly 400-900CE). He is particularly interested in the history of Christian communities in Syria and Iraq, and in the formation and preservation of group identities more broadly. His books have analysed Syriac speaking Christian groups in the later Roman Empire, the Sasanian Empire and the Abbasid Caliphate. He has recently published The Imam of the Christians. The World of Dionysius of Tel-mahre, 750-850 (Princeton, 2021) and, together with Prof. Leif Stenberg, What is Islamic Studies? European and North American Approaches to a Contested Field (Edinburgh, 2022).
He is also interested in the formation and maintenance of group boundaries in the present day, both in diaspora contexts and in the modern Middle East.
He is a regular participate in debates around contemporary integration policy and religious education in Britain and is keen to engage with government, think tanks and teachers.
https://aku.academia.edu/PhilipWood
| Present | Professor, Aga Khan University ‐ Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Courses
- Late Antiquity: Emperors, Prophets and Caliphs
- The Sacred Across Cultures
| DPhil, University of Oxford ‐ Faculty of History | ||
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